Why is everyone using Windows of Opportunity?

You fell for the bait.

Because it's got a high return for low effort. Quite simply it drastically reduces your chances of making a bad chase ending mistake, without requiring a lot of effort.

While it is just an info perk, it always ensures players are running to the nearest window or pallet to put between them and the killer, and accommodates a very lazy play style for casual players.

From a high level standpoint, it's not that great beyond knowing what spawns are pallets are still available, but for your average scrub player like myself, it can buy you significantly more time by just unga bungaing to safety.

When a popular perk gets nerfed, then another rises to take its place. There's been many meta survivor perk nerfs over the last 18 months, and Windows has just climbed the ladder of usefulness behind them.

Because... Why not?

i think WoO should be basekit for survivors. Killers see gens and hooks survs pallets and windows.

Because it's a perk you can turn your brain off to. It makes finding and connecting loops substantially easier.

As a killer main I think it's okay all it really does is even the playing field between survivors that know the maps and people learning the game. I'd much rather they had windows than an exhaustion perk, dead hard, ds, otr, adrenaline or hope

Literally everyone complains about map layout and map RNG.

Yet it's surprising that a perk that helps mitigate the impact of that RNG is popular?

You can only run into an area, only to find that 'oops, the map just didn't generate that pallet, so you're in a dead zone lol' so many times before you equip the literal only information perk in the game that can help you avoid that.

Please dont witch-hunt me...

• To learn maps
• To know where pallets are and in what state (dropped or not) they are
• To automatize survivor - chase gameplay

These are the 3 reasons of why survivors use windows of opportunity.

Victim behaviour is strong in this post. Please be more reasonable.

balance?

Did you miss the part where I said that doesn't mean perks have to get nerfed? The only thing I said was people don't like going against the same things all the time. I wasn't comparing them in terms of strength, either - Just how often I see them. Calm down, buddy. I didn't say a single thing about balance.

There is a third reason.

Some people use it to actually learn maps.

Its a minority, but they do exist.

To that i have to say: the tutorial should have a "check out the map"- function where new players can learn map layout and main buildings. This job should not be locked behind a non-base game character / perk.

Sir/Ma'am... I am hitting F for you. I will work on resurrecting your inner Evan. <3

That is also my take on it. I dont run WoO myself, but I can understand why people run it. And I am pretty sure I also got downed in situations where WoO would have helped me, but I am also very sure that the Perk I took instead of WoO helped me to survive in other games.

And I never was really frustrated when going against someone with WoO. And since it is a Perk which bridges the gap between Solo and SWF a bit, it is a good Perk overall and it is great that it is in the game.

WoO can be really obnoxious at times, when you feel how the survivor is going on autopilot. These specific kind just bee-line to the next pallet, drop it and bee-line to the next and you as the killer can't do anything about it besides breaking chase. In essence, this turns the game into an interactive movie, where you just follow the script and press a button intermittendly to proceed the script. Its boring as hell.

But not all WoO users play like this, most use it as a sort of radar to see whats going on in the trial: there is a pallet being thrown over there, there is a dead zone over there, the injured person is close to a pallet, so maybe they can go down under it, "OMG that other Meg is throwing every single pallet on the map one after another, maybe I should let the killer injure me and take the chase, otherwise we will be out of pallets in about 1min" etc.

I really think that info perks are the least of our concerns, info is important and info is strong, but info also leads to interactions and more fun aspects of the game. Usage percentage of a perk should never be the main deciding factor if something got to be nerved, we don't need a 6.1 meta shakeup every 6 month, thank you. What should be looked at are individual perks that are overtuned and that are breaking too many rules at once. DH and MFT on the survivor side and Eruption and old Thana on the killer side, for example.

WoO is not such a perk, even though I hate the way some players auto pilot with it, but that is more of a nuisance then a soul killing torture like old DH was. A kina comparison could be made with Ultimate Weapon that as a whole isn't as OP as some players claim, just very stressful at times to verse. At heart it is a strong info perk that gives a momentarily round about check where everyone is, but you don't see any aura and unless a scream happens right next to you, often times the survivors will have booked it by the time you arrive at the scene, BUT it keeps the game from getting stale and moves things along, leading to chases instead of the killer stumbling along aimlessly with 2-3 gens popping unopposed. The only real scenario where the perk is unfair is in endgame with 1 person left, as it trivialises any gate play and I wouldn't mind it loosing that part of its power. I do love the way blindless messes with WoO users, though, so I really wouldn't want to keep that, but in the end that could go, too, I only really care about the one time scream. (Oh, and the way it interacts with Pig Boxes etc. Thats probably unneeded, too).

Considering its used for seflish chase builds, its primary a chasing perk.

Don't let anyone tell you newbie Survivors are using this perk, they're using Selfcare and only Selfcare.